Halfway back

[henshu]

On my way home now, and I'm stopped in philadelphia for a stop over. So I figured I might as well type up an update to post on my journal later. Since they made me pull out my laptop. It's nice to be back and in a way, it feels like I'm back for good or that I haven't been back in forever. Maybe this is how it feels to go away where you can't easily come back for school. I've never had that before since I went to berkeley and would come home every other weekend or when I needed money....even during the week if need be, though I don't think I did that! Anywayz, it's good to smell the smell of vaporized fat in the air from all the fryers and the fat in the foods. It's making me hungry. I should get a philly cheesesteak here, but I forgot which terminal that was in....I think that was way far away and I don't want to lug my bag and laptop there. The first thing I notice is that people don't take as much care in their appearance here as they do in Italy. Good thing? Bad thing? Just something I noticed right away. Not as many women wearing make up and definitely no men dressed up in suits just for fun like they do in italy. Now, instead of lower-moderately dressed as I was when I was in Italy, I'm not over-dressed! It's strange, not a bad thing since I do miss wearing my shorts. It's too bad I'm only here in the inter time this time and the fact that I didn't bring my shorts. I hope I have some shorts I didn't know about back home. I can see in the news that it's also raining in Bay Area, and it looks like there's some precipitation out near Tahoe too. I should make a day to go up, but I don't have much time nor do I have much money. So much I want to do. Definitely need to go to In n' Out though. That's for sure. I can't wait to see everyone. I think I'll call up Sandy when I get back. I haven't spoken to her or anything since she left, cause right after my parents came and it was morning to night with them. not that it was a bad thing, it was just very tiring and not what I Was used to, the "italian" way. A lot of things I do miss about the States, but there's definitely things that I don't. Fat foods is one of the things I DO miss. And of course Chinese food and Asian food in general.

Christmas season was missed this year, again. Looking back now, I'm one of those that missed it. I have missed it now for the 27th time.